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Cook, Marc

journalist, author, poet, was born in 1854 in Rhode Island.

He was a journalist of New York, and the author of The Wilderness Cure; and Vandyke Brown Poems. He died Oct. 4, 1882, in Utica, N. Y.

COOK, MARTHA ELIZABETH DUN- CAN WALKER, author, poet, was born July 23, 1806. She was a good linguist, and translated several works from the German and French. Among these were Liszt's Life of Chopin, translated from the French; The Undivine Comedy, and Other Poems, by Count Sigismund Krasinski, translated from the Polish through the German and French; and Life of Joan of Arc. She died Sept. 15, 1874, in Hoboken, N. J.

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